"Pretty Little Liars" is taking viewers on an adventure back in time for the Feb. 11 episode "Shadow Play." Check out this behind-the-scenes video of the cast and writer/director
Joseph Dougherty discussing the making the film noir episode.

"In this episode, Spencer has been going through many a sleepless night, fueled by Adderall, and she's trying desperately trying to figure out whether or not Ezra's 'A,'" says
Troian Bellisario. "She goes to take another pill to keep up all night and she loses touch completely with her own reality and wakes up in a new reality and that is her life, noir-ified, if I can just make up that word.

Shay Mitchell adds that everything about the episode is gorgeous: "You could literally stop it at any point and blow it up on a big poster and it's going to be stunning," while Dougherty says the stylized effort is "meant to honor a form of very lush storytelling from American films of the '40s."

It isn't just the black-and-white filming that makes the episode a throwback to the 1940s. The costumes, hair, makeup and even dialogue are reminiscent of a film noir movie. In a short clip within the behind-the-scenes video, Ezra (
Ian Harding) says to Toby (
Keegan Allen), "We both know what happens when a man lets a skirt get to him."